If you like your drama dialled up to 11 all the time, Hamnet is for you.

Directors Veronica Bassetto and Sophie Yang might have futures as game designers if Gamer Girls goes belly up.

If this were the 2010, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! would rate a hearty "Yass Queen!”

Gavin Lin’s Sunshine Women’s Choir is treacly hokum and completely ridiculous. It’s Taiwan’s biggest local hit ever.

Tracy Choi’s Girlfriends makes for a nice middle entry in what, fingers crossed, might be a smart, sapphic trilogy.

Liu Kuan-ting and Jennifer Yu suffer wedding day emotional mania in Joseph Hsu’s surprisingly engaging Double Happiness.

Not sure what it means if date night is Wuthering Heights, but hey. Whatever works.

It’s CNY, it’s got funny bits, there’s gold, but Jack Ng’s Night King has more on its mind than red pockets.

There’s not making sense, then there’s The Snowball on a Sunny Day.

Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters Per Second gets the Disney live action treatment. We’re not sure if that’s good.

Sentimental Value proves that movies can heal us, teach us and keep us entertained all at the same time. Magic!

Tokyo Taxi is 100% pure Yoji Yamada – with a touch of spicy.

How Song Sung Blue manages to be corny, sappy, joyful and respectful all at once is byeond us.

Benedict Cumberbatch stands out with normal skin in so-so semi-horror novel adaptation, The Thing with Feathers.

Timothy Yeung’s Finch & Midland isn’t actually as grim as it seems on the surface.

Russell Crowe is a suitably chilling Hermann Göring in James Vanderbilt’s chillingly timely Nuremberg.

Animated Jesus origin story The King of Kings has a very specific market and not enough creativity to attract anyone else.

Sho Miyake’s quiet, spare, thoughtful Two Seasons, Two Strangers proves he’s one of Japan’s best right now.

Mamoru Hosoda’s ambitious Scarlet doesn’t come close to Hamlet’s depth or storytelling grace.

At least Nobody isn’t just another Journey to the West knock-off.